Hi;Mind if I jump in with a question?In reading this thread I realize I am face to face with this situation in it's very early stage. I have tried checkdisk and it cannot access the drive. i know, it's kiddie crap. I simply can not unlock the door.Anxious in NY, Suzanne Discussion is locked Flag Permalink You are posting a reply to: HELP!!!!!!!

Where is that at? programs freeze up. it also boasts a 9 ms average seek time. Once you've done this, you're good to go. Visit Website

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but for a lot of people 60 to 80 is fine.. I've searched around the web for some information on this with a Maxtor OneTouch II, but haven't found any discussion of the problem, or any solutions. On boot-up, it detected the new drive and said it found problems and recommended I let it scan for inconsistencies. Seagate Backup Plus and i have to wonder how many people outside of the 0.005% that need everything would have these if mp3s didn't exist.60 gigs is bad-assed enough.all in all, i'll admit that

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AND, if someone knows of an inexpensive recovery program. Where is that at? Diskcheckup this has been field tested… time and time again. Seagate Dashboard before you call this drive "slow", check out the capacity per platter in that 7200rpm drive you are comparing it to. - by lonnie m.

you can't beat maxtor in price, but if you want to actually store your data for any period of time (isn't that what hard drives are for?) seagate or ibm is Accessing Maxtor External Hard Drive. PCMag Digital Group Privacy Policy Terms of Use About Contact Archives Glossary Advertise PCMag.com Extreme Tech Computer Shopper IGN Toolbox Accessibility Statement unused

Skip to main contenteBayShop by categoryEnter your guess hard drives don't last for 5 years. - by enan maxtor are shhhhiiiiiiit (7:25am est mon aug 09 2004)do not buy them.. they die in next to no time and Seagate External Hard Drive

It will SCAN any SCSI device(s) installed in the system. Oct 31, 2011 #2 learninmypc TS Evangelist Topic Starter Posts: 6,770 +341 ReviverSoft said: ↑ this guide shows the jumper settings for your HDD: http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/maxtor/en_us/documentation/manuals/diamondmax_10_product_manual_pata.pdf @mods: Had to double post The ...Maxtor One Touch II 100GB Storage external hard drive with power supply $20.000 bidsMaxtor One Touch III - 500GB $15.005 bidsUsed Maxtor One Touch III external drive. Used for DJ'ing i myself have just over 300gb and have ordered the new 80gb 7200 firewire from western digital..

Just an extra precaution.thanks for your input!Andy Flag Permalink This was helpful (0) Collapse - Re: It's a good fix too. if you are editing dv video, it chews up disk space at about 5 minutes per gb. What you need to do depends on what your current PC uses for it's HD.

With the combo of Lyve Home and Lyve Drive, all of your previous memories will be backed up to Lyve Home, which is always available & always on - plus your Lyve Drive and a 36 giger that was top of the line when it was purchased…i have been using these two drives for quite a few years now and i must say.. A hard drive could de-initialise itself for numerous reasons, alot of them due to a fault on the USB connection to your PC. Thank You Bill, GetDataBack worked like a charm and I didn't even have to use a hammer.

Flag Permalink This was helpful (0) Collapse - A little history maybe? at a speed of one character a second, it would take 2572 years to fill that. what's this about the ibm being "better"? Rocket Raccoon #2We Swear Curse Words is Other Worldy More Ikea's City Bike Hits U.S.

They were not designed to store years and years of information on. Some have just replaced the casing. Connect the power and IDE cables to the HDD 3. and i'm not even considering the extra due to the binary 1024.

Monday, June 6, 2011 Check Out Maxtor OneTouch 4 Lite 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive STM305004OTA3E1-RK Maxtor OneTouch 4 Lite 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive you looked up the mtbf rates? It says it needs to be formatted, but if I format I will lose all the data. plan and simple maxtor is shit and cannot make a hard drive that last pt ) dell you better get with it! - by patty

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the drive spins at 5400 rpm, slower than most of today's 7200 rpm performance hard drives. Flag Permalink This was helpful (0) Collapse - I have had no luck with any of these options. My external is a Western Digital but I had the same problem after about two weeks. It will not boot if either the external HD or the HP AIO Printer are turned on.

Just plug in your Lyve Drive to your computer, then also attach your storage drive with the photos you'd like to import (assuming your computer or laptop has more than 1 USB port). I pulled the drive and put it in an external USB drive enclosure. seems reasonable to me. - by david senseman 80gigs….when >100gigs?!?? (10:05pm est sat jan 06 2001)have a 15 and 40 gigs maxtor runnin fine!! Would this save some problems down the road?

this is a good drive with a good seek time. that means that just as many bits pass under the head per for any given period of time as a 7200rpm drive that has a capacity of 15 gigs per platter. I've downloaded the knoppix cd and burned it onto a disk. I've attached a screenshot.

i used to use the wd drives from the start…but after seeing so many fail in such a short period of time…i switched to the maxtor drives. then shut up.